Historia vnnd Beschreibung influentischer, elementischer vnd natürlicher Wirckungen, aller fremden vnnd heimischen Erdgewechssen ...

by: Thurneisser zum Thurn, Leonhard, 1530?-1596; Hille, Peter, d. 1574; Stürmer, Wolfgang, fl. 1543-1593; Poll, Absolon, 16th cent

Publication date: 1578

Topics: Medicinal plants, Botany, Medical, Materia medica, Vegetable, Umbelliferae

Publisher: [Berlin] : Gedruckt zu Berlin bey Michael Hentzsken

Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: German

First German edition. First Latin ed. published by Hentzske the same year. Cf. Nissen

The present work is the 1st of 10 projected parts. It covers the Umbelliferae. Cf. Nissen

Imprint from colophon on last p

Signatures: )( A B (B4+chi1) C-P

Library's copy imperfect: )(3 with author's port. is wanting

Woodcut t.p. design with strapwork and columns. Text printed in red and black. Woodcut initials at left center: P.F., for Peter Hille; cf. Nagler. Other ill. by Absolon Poll and Wolfgang Stürmer

Includes index

Errata, p. [23]

T.p. of Library's copy handcolored. At the foot is a ms. R in brown ink, and in the cartouche just above, the initials P A

Binding: modern red morocco over pasteboard, tooled in gold and silver. Center compartment on both boards tooled in gold: Thurneysser. Spine label: Historia by Thurneysser; at the foot: 1578. Front free endpaper stamped by the Philosophical Research Society binder: Murray 1936. Back pastedown inscribed in brown ink: mph

Hogart, R.C. Alchemy

Nissen, C. Botanische Buchillustration (2. Aufl.)

Hunt botanical cat.

Arber, A. Herbals

Pritzel

BM STC German

Nagler, C.K. Monogrammisten